Picture This!Quality Of Light: Glow

Our reader assignment for this month was to explore a quality of light that brought out a glow in subjects and scenes. For the most part that meant working with strong backlight and sidelight in hazy or low-light conditions, but readers also, we note, added glow of their own through some post-processing steps. While this was okay with us for the most part, adding excessive glow that was not necessarily inherent to the light or scene and was mainly a software add-on usually meant elimination from consideration, a fine line that readers might want to consider in future Picture This! submissions. For the most part though we were treated to some very beautiful images that glowed with an ethereal light.